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here to read The Times’s original review of Portnoy’s Complaint
by Philip Roth

Reviewing Roth Unbound for TheNew York Times last year,
Martin Amis made the strange mistake of calling it an “authorised
biography”. He was corrected by a legion of correspondents (who’d have
thought that among elderly, Jewish, New York literary folk there exists an
instinct for pedantry?), a series of suicides decimated the fact-checking
department, and eventually the online version of the article was overhauled
to reflect Amis’s error, with an apology at the end explaining that, “While
Roth cooperated with the author in its preparation,